I'm really interested in what you remember, how you remember, what your perspective is as opposed to somebody else's.

For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way.

Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil.

Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to me.

Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.

One of the things I've always thought is that if I were to write a poetics, it would have to do with the poetics of failure, and the way in which all the things that you claim or that you try for are already based on the limits of language.

One of the reasons I like immersing myself in different texts, putting myself in the company of other writers, is that they do change your vocabulary. They change what you write about or they change the length of lines.